Drimva

PayPal

Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform

$178K–$334K

San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026

Location
San Jose, California, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Experience
8+ years relevant experience; minimum qualifications also allow any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Education
A Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.

About the job

Leads product strategy and execution for a risk domain within PayPal’s Risk Decisioning Platform, moving strategies from legacy systems into production and optimizing them through experimentation and automation.

What you'll do

  • Set the risk domain’s multi-year vision and product roadmap with risk strategy leaders, balancing business outcomes and customer experience.
  • Lead cross-functional teams through platform transitions, strategy launches, controlled rollouts, and ongoing optimization; track business outcomes.
  • Represent the domain to executives, establish execution and review mechanisms, and mentor product managers.

What they ask for

  • Significant product-building experience in fraud, account integrity, credit, or another risk domain, partnering closely with risk strategy leaders.
  • Deep knowledge of risk decisioning and tuning, including rules, ML models, features, step-up and friction treatments, and loss/customer-experience tradeoffs.
  • Strong quantitative skills with risk metrics and ability to connect product changes to business impact.
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive milestone-based delivery across many teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience launching through controlled rollouts and experimentation, including champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps.
  • Experience leading platform migrations from legacy risk systems while protecting performance.

Pay

San Jose, California: $196,500 - $333,500 Annually (base salary); Austin, Texas: $178,500 - $303,500 Annually (base salary); Chicago, Illinois: $178,500 - $303,500 Annually (base salary)

Tools

rules, ML models

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First seen Oct 17, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)